14 Apr
2011
14 Apr
'11
7:47 a.m.
On Thursday 14 April 2011, geoffrey oltmans wrote:
Did I say in all cases, or was I talking about image
manipulation?
You are dangerously close to putting words in my mouth. ;)
GIMP may be able to offer a large percentage of capability of
Aperture or Photoshop, but it is nowhere as easy to use.
I guess I'm just an "amateur" (digital) photographer, but I exclusively
use Open Source software -- either GIMP or Hugin. I have had pictures
(thanks to a CC Attribution license and Flickr) used on various
websites, and even in a couple of books... and that's just when the
person using my pictures has been nice enough to tell me.
Over 99% of what I do with pictures is adjusting the EV and white
balance (usually while converting from RAW), crop, rotate, and resize,
which I find GIMP perfectly usable for. The rest involves other
functions of GIMP or stitching together a panorama with Hugin.
Pat
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From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thu, April 14, 2011 8:08:55 AM
Subject: Re: Modern source projects (was Re: difference between Quick
On 4/13/11 4:53 PM, geoffrey oltmans wrote:
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Sure, sure... you can sacrifice and use it, but
for anyone who
needs it for professional work would be foolish to use it over one
of the commercial offerings.
Really? Anyone, in all cases of professional work (whatever that
means) would automatically be foolish to use something that's free
over paying hundreds of dollars for something that accomplishes
about 95% of the same tasks?
I don't think I've heard a more concise description of
"well-trained American consumer" in my life.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL